Description:

This is an English re-Translation of Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest. In additon to
translating the ROM, an in-game map is added, and the Japanese staff credits were re-added to the game.
The patch is for the NES version.

The translation is based on the original Japanese text. According to the author, extensive
research was performed on the meaning of the sometimes cryptic original Japanese text in the
game, and special attention was paid to make sure that all the translated text makes sense and is
understandable, without undermining the loyalty in translation to the original Japanese game.

Added dialog in select locations - Small changes that will improve the game experience
without changing the nature of the game.

Reintroduced some features that the English releases removed from the Japanese version -
Includes the extended ending text, as well as Konami-style Start text on the power-on
screen.

Map function - An in-game map is included. It helps understand the layout of the game world, and to
know the name of whichever place the player currently is in. It compensates for the lack of actual game manual, which in the Japanese releases included a map. Press the select button to view the map in the game.

SRAM save function - Game can be saved at any time into internal battery-backed memory and loaded later.

Advanced password encryption - Passwords that are encrypted with extended functionality, can
be decoded by the original (unhacked) versions of the game. The function expands the repertoire
of passwords.

There is also a document that lists in detail all the dialog in the original English and Japanese
versions of the game, explains their meaning, and takes educated guesses on why certain lines
were translated the way they were: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/cv2fin/diff

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User Review Information

Best Version, But Needs Work

I would argue that this romhack is the single best way to play Simon’s Quest, far better than Redacted due to the way it stayed true to the original intent of the game not to mention it’s other features. However, there are some negatives worth noting. It may be that I was playing on original hardware, but the save screen would often have visual glitches for me. Also while the prologue cutscene is very well done it always ends on a black screen and can often black screen when trying to get out of it.

The good news is this patch has a whole website built around options, so I for example ended up removing the prologue cutscene all together as it got annoying to have to rush through the opening screen. And if the save screen’s glitches bothered me so much I could have switched back to the old password interface (but I didn’t). If there’s something you don’t like in the patch, just switch it out.

Overall, even with it’s small flaws, I strongly recommend this patch to both first time players of Simon’s Quest as well as old returning vampire slayers.